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Rare responds to Pete Moore comments

After former Xbox boss Peter Moore revealed his thoughts on Rare, saying that …

During a lengthy, multi-part interview with The Guardian, former Xbox VP Peter Moore made some comments about one of his former studios, Viva Pinata developer, Rare. Moore explained that he believed "the industry had passed Rare by" and that "their skillsets were from a different time and a different place and were not applicable in today's market." The developer has now responded to the comments made by its former boss.

"I don't take much notice about what people say about our games I work on, whether positive or negative," Rare's Gregg Mayles told MTV Multiplayer. "I think you just have to get it clear in your mind what you want to do and try and let that vision come to life. Obviously, when it's finished, you can look back and say ‘yeah, that was really successful' or 'no, that wasn't quite so successful,' but at least I can sit back and say ‘yeah, that’s the game I wanted it to be.'"

As for the industry passing them by, Mayles believes that there is still a place for the kinds of games that Rare creates. "We've always been seen as a bit, I don’t know, willing to take a chance on doing something different and trying to come up with new experience," he explained. "Or, if it's a game in an established genre, what we can do to add to that genre, rather than just tag it on and we can do a game in that genre.”

That being said, though both Viva Pinata games have been critical successes, neither has sold as much as was expected of them. Hopefully Rare will be able to prove itself once again with the upcoming Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts for the Xbox 360.